Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1886 — Growing Vines For Window Cultivation. [ARTICLE]

Growing Vines For Window Cultivation.

Growing vines are the loveliest of all plants for in-door cultivation, and require the least care. There is an indescribable charm in the vine, with its clinging, tender ways, and soft shadows. Pictures, plaques —in fact everthing decorating the wall—are enhanced by the caress of a string of foliage. There are certain varieties of free-growing trailers that thrive excellently if their roots are placed in water. A largenecked bottle or hyacinth glass is useful for this purpose. Put a piece of charcoal in the bottle to keep the water pure; as tffe water evaporates add more, but never renew it all at once, as the roots in the glass will so be chilled, or perhaps wounded. Where there is not room for pots this is an exceedingly convenient and cleanly way to grow vines. The brackets and pockets of pottery which appear in such great variety in china shops may be filled with watervines with fine effect, English ivy will grow in water, but so slowly that it is better to keep it in earth, where it will climb in-doors and grow luxuriantly. Periwinkle is another slow grower in water. Tradcscantia or spider-wort is the fastest runner of all the water-vines The T. repens vittata, T: aquatica, T. zebrtna, and T. multicolor are the best for in-door cultivation. Umbrella ferns ( aspedisira cyperus ) thrive well in vases water-tilled. Sweet potato vines are ornamental and require but little attention. — Fannie S. Benson, in Good Housekeeping. — «- - - Lartigo, the chi«f bull-fighter of Madrid, gets a salary of $(3,000 for the summer season, and makes still more by his tours in the provinces during the winter.